Letter to #Costco also asks whether the company's seafood supply chain tainted by forced labor of #Uyghurs and #NorthKoreans. cecc.gov/media-center/p…

Recent reporting has revealed that Uyghurs are forced to labor in #China’s seafood industry. Olivia Enos stresses that the passage of the UFLPA is not enough to end the exploitation of Uyghurs. Read what further steps the US needs to be take in Forbes: forbes.com/sites/oliviaen…

Have you followed Ian Urbina’s investigative reporting? Deep dives. Extraordinary.

The final part of a story told all around the world. With grace and kindness, Ian Urbina allowed us to share his story in 4 parts on our page. Ian investigates industrial fishing realities. Many countries will fish to extinction, but also ruin the lives of human beings.

DYK much of the seafood you buy is made with forced labour? 1000+ Uyghurs have been forced to work in seafood-processing plants that sell products that end up in the USA, CA, & EU. @newyorker Ian Urbina newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Last month the Outlaw Ocean Project latest investigation's revealed evidence of illegal fishing activities & conditions of #forcedlabour on vessels & in inland seafood processing facilities in #China, supplying European & American retailers buff.ly/2ZhmkNb

A chilling must-read in The New Yorker from Ian Urbina of The Outlaw Ocean Project which exposes the crimes & forced labour on Chinese fishing vessels. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Canada is starting to put in place frameworks to address #Humanrights violations abroad by Canadian companies but enforcement remains weak. Canadian seafood company High Liner cuts ties with supplier following forced-labour investigation Ian Urbina theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

An investigation by Ian Urbina revealed the use of Uyghur and North Korean labour to process seafood from Chinese ships. Products from companies linked to forced labour have been found to be imported to the US & Europe as a result of murky supply chains. politico.com/news/magazine/…

Incredible investigative report, 4 years in the making, about China’s forced-labor fishing industry in POLITICO today, reported in part via messages in plastic bottles thrown from boat to boat. politi.co/49O1Yvm by Ian Urbina

"Over $20 million worth of pollock...was shipped to the National School Lunch Program & other federal food assistance programs." POLITICO Ian Urbina The seafood ending up in school lunches carries the blood, sweat, and tears of #Uyghurs. politico.com/news/magazine/…

Excellent and disturbing work here, "How Uyghur Forced Labor Makes Seafood That Ends Up in School Lunches," by Ian Urbina. politico.com/news/magazine/…

Based on revelations of "the use of forced labor in seafood processed in China and other crimes tied to Chinese ships," here's a video showing how one company -- the Chishan Group -- "using forced labor taints much of the world’s seafood." theoutlawocean.com/investigations…

Update: the The Washington Post is losing three news researchers in the buyouts, Pulitzer Prize winners Alice Crites and Jennifer Jenkins, as well as veteran Magda Jean-Louis, leaving only one researcher and a supervisor in the entire department.

Farinella is a real life superhero. We need more people like him who are willing to speak out against these giant fishing corps using save labor, wrecking environmental havoc and sending diseases poisoned food to the USA. theoutlawocean.com/investigations…

Congratulation to Peter Wallsten and his The Washington Post team for their amazing reporting on the gun of choice of mass killers -- the AR 15

Here's the extraordinary story by Jennifer Senior that made her (again) a Pulitzer finalist today. Simply unforgettable, by a writer at the height of her powers: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

BREAKING: Sources close to President Biden say he has begun to consider the possibility of accepting the notion that the likelihood of him becoming aware that he may come around to the conclusion that the prospect of the circumstances surrounding the occurrence of him not being

.Moira Donegan: "The plundering of public survivors’ psyches during #MeToo ... appears, in retrospect, to have been less about our edification than about our entertainment." bookforum.com/culture/dispos…

I loved Our Flag Means Death, and this @dimmerwahr piece from last month gives a fascinating real history from the same period, touching on pirates' sexualities, self-governing utopias at sea, and roles in helping colonizers. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…